Rio De Janeiro: Just after midnight on October 28, a group of police officers were startled by roughly 20 armed men on motorcycles fleeing the Alemao favela, one of the headquarters of Rio de ...

Brazil's Deadliest Police Raid Failed to Capture or Kill Gang Leaders By Ricardo Brito, Luciana Magalhaes and Fabio Teixeira RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) -The governor of Rio de Janeiro has touted the ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A massive police raid on a drug gang embedded in low-income neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro that left at least 119 people dead drew protests for excessive force Wednesday and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A state police operation targeting a major drug gang in Brazil has resulted in the deaths of 132 people in low-income ...

Brazil's Deadliest Police Raid Puts Lula in a Political Bind By Luciana Magalhaes, Lisandra Paraguassu and Lucinda Elliott RIO DE JANEIRO/BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazil's most lethal police operation ever ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. government approved a sale of sniper rifles to a deadly police unit in Brazil last year, overriding concerns from the U.S. ambassador and other diplomats that the arms could be ...

(CNN) — Armored vehicles rumbling through narrow alleys. Rifle shots cracking in heavy crossfire. Helicopters and weaponized drones firing from above. Soldiers in military gear engaged in violent ...

On July 10, Brazil's Federal Police executed nine simultaneous search-and-seizure warrants across São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Porto Alegre, and Canoas, tearing into a laundering network built on 87 ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Just after midnight on October 28, a group of police officers were startled by roughly 20 armed men on motorcycles fleeing the Alemão favela, one of the headquarters ...